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Fastenings and Findings for Jewellers is an essential guide to making a functional part of a piece of jewellery into a graceful, integral feature. Complete with step-by-step instructions, it explains the requirements of design, and emphasizes the importance of safely and securely fastening the piece. Having explained the principles of various catches, it then looks at how the fastening can be adapted to suit a particular design. With tips and advice throughout, this practical book provides creative solutions to a practical necessity and thereby adds inspiration to a design.

La presente obra aborda uno de los procesos más intrigantes de la geología: el metamorfismo; el cual ha sido ampliamente difundido a través de la historia geológica de la Tierra y gran actor en su constitucion. Testimonio de esto es el hecho de que las rocas metamorficas constituyen el 27,4 % del volumen de la corteza.El papel protagonico del metamorfismo en la estructura de la Tierra se manifiesta igualmente en su capacidad para formar y reconcentrar mineralizaciones. En este libro el lector encontrara ejemplos de rocas metamorficas y procesos asociados del territorio colombiano, ademas de que se presentan las bases de la petrologia metamorfica.

This detailed guide is written for intermediate and experienced Rhino 3D CAD users who wish to improve their understanding of NURBS and subdivision modelling methods in Rhino 3D. It explains how 3D modelling applies to jewellery and manufacturing through a combination of step-by-step tutorials, analysis of the software techniques and demonstrations of real world case studies. Packed with essential techniques and strategies, it can be used as a self-learning tool or a classroom text to take your use of Rhinos 3D NURBS and subdivision modelling tools to a higher level. This new book gives a comprehensive and fluid strategic approach to modelling solids, surfaces and subdivision objects in Rhino. The application of jewellery manufacturing tolerances across a range of different jewellery types is covered. The essential tools and holistic strategy of Rhinos SubD organic modelling suite, and how it fits within the greater scheme of Rhino modelling is discussed. Finally, there is an overview of useful practices for creating good CAD renders using Rhino Cycles.

O livro "Metodologias de campo: perspectivas interdisciplinares", nas palavras de Luiz Antonio Coelho que assina o seu prefácio, constitui-se como um exercício de intertextos cujo fio condutor é a perspectiva da metodologia como caminho para se reconhecer territorios, contextos culturais, contextos situacionais, seres-pessoas em existencia ativa. As autoras e os autores enfatizam, em seus textos, perspectivas interdisciplinares caracteristicas do Programa de Pos-Graduaço em Design da PUC-Rio. Integram saberes, fazeres e atitudes que participam da manutenço e anuncio de caminhos para o campo do Design, revelando contextos de ensino e pesquisa que contribuem para o dialogo, a ressignificaço constante e a formulaço de questes e reflexes. Os leitores so convidados a leitura dos capitulos em qualquer ordem e so instigados a arranjar, compor, decompor, recompor sua experiencia de leitura. Um convite para uma experiencia caleidoscopica.

Este livro aborda as práticas do design na América Latina, partindo de exemplos no Brasil, Costa Rica e Argentina. No Brasil, na cidade de São Paulo, a designer Silvia Sasaoka criou a Straat onde des

A pérola na história, na mitologia, nas religiões, na moda, no luxo dos poderosos, na arte, na beleza feminina, no cinema, na publicidade. Com muitas imagens, o livro apresenta pérolas naturais e cul

The articles in this volume seek to shed new light on frequently overlooked archaisms and acts of spoliation. This book is about ideas, style, and material objects, their reuse and repurposing in the Eastern Roman Empire and after its end in 1453.In the absence of textual evidence, art historians and archaeologists often rely on dating artifacts based on an assumed linear development of artistic styles, visual or paleographic forms. This modern predisposition has long hampered our understanding of how people used and referenced the past through stylistic and material spoliation.The long-standing interest of art historians and archaeologists in spolia resonates with and informs the more recent scholarly focus on cultural heritage. At their core, both spolia and heritage are about acts and processes of the transformation of material and meaning. Cultural heritage studies do not ask what something signified at the moment of inception, but rather how objects and ideas were reshaped, reused, and reinterpreted over time. Spolia reused and reworked fragments from the past are material expressions of these same categories and manifestations of transformations over time. Both spolia and heritage trace how the relationship between the past and the present was continually negotiated, how the past was used.

As marcas são parte indissociável de nosso cotidiano. A identidade visual, a expressão mais tangível da marca, é classicamente caracterizada por estabilidade, uniformidade, fácil identificação e reco

Identity and Cultural Exchange in Ancient CiliciaNew Results and Future Perspectives is the results of a conference held at the University of Munich in 2018. It assesses the state of knowledge regarding Cilicia between the Roman period and Late Antiquity. The diverse array of studies in this volume contribute to the reappraisal of the region as a unique cultural locale.What must we analyze in order to understand the identity of a multifaceted region, which contains manifold landscapes, multicultural communities, and displays influences from several cultures, as Cilicia did in Late Antiquity? In answer to this main question, an international team of scholars from various research areas, linked by sustained work in Cilicia, present the latest results of their excavations or research.The volume contains eight illustrated articles that deal with important topics in research on Cilicia, which are arranged chronologically from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity.The first two articles analyze the emergence of the phenomenon of urbanization in the whole region and the birth of coin production and circulation in the fervent Cilicia Tracheia. The following two chapters consider the numerous epigraphic sources recently found in Cilicia, both in buildings and in funerary contexts, in order to show how the migration processes and cultural interchanges made the region a crossroads for peoples and cultures.How did the advent of Christianity contribute to strengthening the role of Cilicia as a vital cultural region and a place visited by international visitors?The last four contributions analyze the importance of the region in Late Antiquity through its sacred buildings. The archaeological evidence brought to light in excavation campaigns conducted continuously since 2011 in the city of Olba and its monastery highlights the continuity of use of the city in the Christian period and its relationship with the nearby cities.How did the city of Korykos, a renowned city harbor in Late Antiquity, become a place of veneration for one or more local saints? This question is addressed by the penultimate article, which re-evaluates the importance of the city in Late Antiquity through careful analysis of some inscriptions found in the necropolis of Korykos and of an outstanding basilica, the architectural layout of which suggests a particular function.The final contribution applies the sociological concept of gathering to the renowned pilgrimage site of Saint Thekla at Meryemlik in order to show how architecture and landscape contribute to the increase of pilgrimage experience of a Late Antique site.This volume represents a significant contribution to the history and archaeology of the region, offering an updated overview of recent studies on Cilicia (many of which were published only in Turkish) and a survey of the Cilician past that can be considered the basis for future studies.

This book is a catalogue raisonée of a rich collection of ancient engraved gems housed in the National museum in Krakow. It offers a thorough insight into ancient glyptic art through the considerable range of almost 780 so far unpublished objects cameos, intaglios, scarabs and finger rings of various styles, workmanship and cultural circles: Egyptian, Near Eastern, Minoan, Greek, Etruscan, Italic, Roman, Sassanian and early Christian, dated from the second millennium BC to the seventh century AD.Many pieces in this cabinet are notable not only for their top quality in terms of craftsmanship and design, but also for the materials used and engravings involving complex iconography illustrating religious beliefs, political allegiances, needs and desires that ancient people wished to be fulfill, fears, dangers and terrors from which they sought protection and even their daily occupations. The collection provides with a fascinating gallery of portrait studies presenting Hellenistic rulers and their queens, Roman emperors and members of their families as well as some private individuals. Some specimens are exceptional and unparalleled like the onyx cameo portraying Drusus Maior, likely executed by the hand of Eutyches, son of famous Dioscurides (cover) or a tiny but remarkably cut emerald cameo with a laureate portrait bust of Livia Drusilla as goddess Venus. Some objects have been preserved in their original settings (gold, silver, bronze, iron rings), which contributes to the study of ancient gems chronology and indicate their users, while others have been later re-set into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century collectors rings and sometimes more elaborated mounts. There are also pieces discoloured due to contact with considerable heat, which may suggest them to have been burnt with other personal objects on the funeral pyres and later deposited in burials. Noteworthy is the number of Greek and Latin inscriptions appearing on intaglios and cameos forming this cabinet. They span from owners names to the subtle messages communicated between lovers and invocations to the God.Each gem is thoroughly analysed, described and exhaustively commented as to the device it bears, chronology and possible workshop attribution. A vast number of parallel objects is referenced too. This combined with provenance study presented in the first part of the book enabled to establish where a number of intaglios and cameos were manufactured, including almost 140 objects most likely to origin from the most important Roman workshop located in Aquileia. It ought to be singled out that many gems in this volume once constituted a part of distinguished collections formed by such personalities as Tobias von Biehler, Alessandro Gregorio Capponi, Auguste le Carpentier, Alessandro Castellani, Comte de Caylus, Count Nikolai Nikitich Demidoff, Baron Albert de Hirsch, Jean François Leturcq, Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen, Dr. George Frederick Nott, Benedetto Pistrucci, James-Alexandre de Pourtales (Comte de Pourtales-Gorgier), Paul von Praun, Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky, Jacques Meffre Rouzan, Philipp von Stosch, Antonio Maria Zanetti and many more. They seemed lost for more than 130 years, but now have been brought back and are accessible to everyone. Consequently, the volume presents three intriguing stories of collectors whose donations contributed to the Krakow assemblage. They not only provide the reader with a sort of background for the objects discussed further, but also illustrate nineteenth- and early twentieth-century collecting practices and the art market for engraved gemstones, contributing to our knowledge of the history of scholarship and collecting. In summary, this book is intended to be useful not only for scholars interested in gems, but also those who study the history of the art market and collecting as well as all the enthusiasts of Classical art and archaeology.